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Ship Name Histories - Database of
histories of ship names beginning with letter Y. |
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Yakumo  |
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Origin: Literally "Eight clouds". Ya here
signifies a vast number, a myriad. The term was applied poetically
to the clouds which, in the mythology of Japan, overhung what is now the
province of Idzumo in the birth of the world. |
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Yali-Kiosk  |
| Name
Origin: The name of a kiosk which formerly stood on Seraglio Point,
Constantinople. |
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Yamahiko |
| Name
Origin: A mountain echo. |
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Yamato |
| Name
Origin: Originally a poetical title for the whole of Japan, and one of
the provinces is still so named. The first Emperor Jimmu, at the
close of a protracted expedition against the aborigines on which he set
out from his palace of Takachiho, established himself in a new palace at
Kashiwabara - literally "oak plain" - in this province of
Yamato in Central Japan, and the date on which he did so is regarded as
the beginning of the Japanese Empire. The Imperial records fix the
exact date as February 11th, in the year 660BC, and the existence of the
Empire is officially reckoned therefrom. |
Yankee
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| Name
Origin: The origin of this is uncertain. It is now generally taken
to mean in the narrower sense a citizen of New England, in the wider
(European) sense a citizen of the United States. |
Yanktown
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| Name
Origin: A city in South Dakota |
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Yaroslav  |
| Name
Origin: A town on the Volga, and capital of the government of that
name. Founded in 1025, it formed during several centuries an
independent principality, and later the eldest sons of the Tsars of
Muscovy bore the title of Princes of Yaroslav. |
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Yatagan  |
| Name
Origin: The sword of Mahomedan nations, having no guard or cross-piece. |
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Yayeyama |
| Name
Origin: A group of islets lying immediately to the south of the
Loo-Choos (Riu-Kiu) archipelago. |
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Yayoi |
| Name
Origin: A poetic title for March, the third month. |
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Yodo |
| Name
Origin: The river that forms the outlet of Lake Biwa, in Omi province,
and flows through Kioto and Osaka and empties into the sea at Temposan,
five miles below the latter city. |
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Yorck  |
| Name
Origin: Field Marshal Count Hans Yorck von Wartenburg, born 1759, died
1830. He entered the Prussian Army in 1772, but was dismissed for
insubordination in 1779. Seven years later, however, he rejoined,
after serving the Dutch in the East Indies. He fought with
distinction in the wars against Napoleon, and in 1813, when
Governor-General of Prussia, placed himself at the head of the great
movement known as the "Volks-Bewaffnung" (people in arms)
directed against the humiliating treaty which Prussia had been forced to
make with Napoleon. He had a decisive share in the victorious
battle on the Katzbach in August of that year, and then forcing the
passage of the Elbe at Wartenburg (whence his title) took part in the
great battle of Leipzig, in which he defeated Marechal Marmont, who was
specially opposed to him. There is a tradition in the family that
it is of common origin with that of the Earls of Hardwicke (Yorke). |
Yorktown
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| Name
Origin: City and seaport in the State of Virginia. During the War
of Independenced the town, which was held by the English under Lord
Cornwallis, was besieged and captured by the American-French troops in
1781. |
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Younnus |
| Name
Origin: Porpoise; also Jonas (the prophet). |
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Yudachi |
| Name
Origin: An evening shower. |
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Yugiri |
| Name
Origin: The mist of evening. |
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Yugure |
| Name
Origin: The dusk of evening. |
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Yunagi |
| Name
Origin: Evening calm. |
